PhD Course Management

Short description

• Basic knowledge of cell free DNA biology and markers of ctDNA.
• The necessary knowledge needed to avoid, or at least control for, biases introduced by pre-analytical processing.
• Basic understanding of the pros and cons of present state-of-the-art methods and technologies used to analyse cell free DNA (cfDNA) and ctDNA. To enable the student to choose the method/technology best suited in a given situation.
• Knowledge about the clinical situations where ctDNA may potentially be used to guide clinical decision making
• Knowledge about pros and cons of different cfDNA/ctDNA trial designs.
• To qualify the student to design and conduct their own cfDNA/ctDNA study